A comic about the making of Star Wars, “Les Guerres de Lucas,” by Laurent Hopman and designer Renaud Roche, won two public media awards in the same week.
The same title won the Franceinfo prize for current affairs and comic reporting on Tuesday and won the Fnac France Inter BD prize on Friday.
Published in October by Deman Editions, this comic book chronicles director George Lucas's extreme difficulties in preparing and filming “Star Wars,” which was released in 1977.
The film will be the fourth episode of the science fiction saga in chronological order and a great Hollywood classic. But George Lucas had to persevere, “from the hell of distribution to the nightmarish filming, where disputes between actors, secret love affairs and terrible disasters characterize daily life,” says the editor's summary.
In a press release, the jury of the Fnac France Inter Prize praised “an apnea immersion in the turmoil of creation, intense and moving, but funny despite everything”.
Franceinfo praised “the impressive dynamism of this true story, treated as a breathtaking thriller with stylized aesthetics and realism, pleasantly shedding light on a little-known episode.”